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SHsuperCM
SHsuperCM

Reputation: 110

How would I open a uwp app from a file/cmd?

I am trying to setup a shortcut for RocketDock(an app bar) to open a UWP app and I cannot manage to hook up a shortcut to the app.

I cannot launch said app from it's executable and have tried launching "shell:AppsFolder\app" and "!App"(using both start cmd command and explorer.exe) and it doesn't launch.

If there's a way to launch it without cmd(through a shortcut) it would also help.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 370

Answers (1)

SHsuperCM
SHsuperCM

Reputation: 110

Ok, after some more tinkering, I found a solution!

What I did is go to Applications(from Win + R and going to shell:AppsFolder) and find the app. Next, I made a shortcut(dragging out of the directory) into somewhere else. (I tried hooking RocketDock to that but it said it didn't know how to open lnk files)

Lastly, I made a batch file that runs the shortcut from cmd: (with the batch file next to the shortcut) I wrote with quotation marks the name of the shortcut with an .lnk suffix.

@echo off
"App - Shortcut.lnk"

Now RocketDock launches the batch file which launches the shortcut and everything works perfectly!

Upvotes: 1

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